December 22, 2005

Here it is, my first podcast recorded in the daytime, and, more importantly, my first podcast recorded with the new Blue Snowball Microphone. It's 46 minutes. Remember you don't need an iPod to listen. You can stream the podcast right on your computer. Just go over and click that "POD" button! [ADDED: Or just click here.]

Topics: how much I detest the movie "Contact," the extent of the character development in "Annie Hall," whether women -- as in "King Kong" -- are sexually attracted to apes, why folks just can't get used to the notion that we evolved from apes, how Egyptologists argue about whether two men in a 5000 year old painting are gay, what the cowboy from The Village People has to say about "Brokeback Mountain," how rotten the finale to Martha Stewart's "Apprentice" was, how FOXNews has infected our holiday greetings, a proposal to take note of the War on Advent, my place in the Divided Kingdom of Kostria-Wingery, and my chance to become the Conservative Blogress Diva.

23 comments:

I haven't listened to the podcast yet, so maybe you go into this in more detail. So not to get all nitpicky, because I agree with your basic point, but it's more accurate to say that human and apes are cousins - we evolved from a common ancestor.

I've heard too many creationists argue that "if we evolved from apes, why are there still apres around." I just want to yell:1. Evolution doesn't work like that.2. We didn't evolve from apes, but we still have to invite them to the family reunion.

I hate to hog the comment list but I just looked at Blue's website and the fact that they're marketing a microphone specifically for podcasts is highly significant. Of what, I'm not sure, but it's highly significant.

It sounds better than before, certainly, but I agree with Art, there's some ambient frequency that's fairly distracting. Also, do you have the capsule switch set to position 1, 2 or 3? I would suggest position 1, as it's recommended for vocals. Perhaps you have it on position 3, which is the omnidirectional setting. That might explain the background noise.

Contact ..... Jody Foster (right?), on her way to some other dimension/galaxy. And she's strapped in, ready to be transported through the worm hole. And she starts yammering: Ok to go now. Over and over again. And I sez to meself, keeriste, she should have gone to the bathroon before she left.

Without looking at other comments. Sound is noticably better, you should be happy with investment but acoustics are noticably different, probably due to different rooms. I really thought of following you by getting one, went to Apple's site, saw the price, decided to stay with my Sony a while longer.Too late to ask Santa.

Dang. I thought the new microphone would make these podcasts shorter. For what it's worth, I listened for a few minutes before my teeny tiny little attention span reached the end of its tether but I thought it sounded somewhat better than the brief bits I've listend to before.

"Remember you don't need an iPod to listen. You can stream the podcast right on your computer."

I hadn't thought about it, but I'll bet there is a tremendous amount of confustion for (non-techie) people about this. You can listen to podcasts on all sorts of devices. I use my Dell Axim PDA for podcasts even though I own a nice MP3 player (Creative Labs brand, not an iPod).

I enjoyed the podcast today, but you really need to get closer to the microphone. 12" from mouth to mic is the maximum distance before it starts to sound thin. And make sure when you move it closer, that you don't speak directly into the mic, or your p's and b's will pop. Put it just to the right or left of your mouth 12" away and you should be good to go.